Plenty to ponder, no need to panic

DECLAN KIDNEY doesn’t do panic, so anyone anticipating or even hoping for wholesale changes in the team to play England at Twickenham on Saturday will be disappointed when he shows his hand at lunchtime today.

Plenty to ponder, no need to panic
Tue, 23 Feb, 2010 - 00:00
Charlie Mulqueen

The loss of Rob Kearney and Jerry Flannery leaves him with calls to make at full-back and hooker, but I don’t believe there will be anything very radical.

After all, this is no game for experimentation or to cast one eye in the direction of the 2011 Rugby World Cup.

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